OpenAI Introduces Memory for ChatGPT, AWS Launches Amazon Q, Major U.S. Newspapers Sue Over Copyright, and Apple Explores AI Integrations for iOS 18!
Artificial Intelligence news, week 18/2024
Happy Saturday everyone!
I'm Rubén Colomer, GP at Next Tier Ventures and this is AI Weekly Digest, a weekly roundup of the latest news, funding rounds, tools, interesting reads, events, and jobs related to Artificial Intelligence.
News 🗞️📰
OpenAI has enabled the "Memory" feature for all ChatGPT Plus users, the company announced via X. Memory allows users to tell ChatGPT things they want it to remember across chats. The feature can be turned on and off in the settings. Memory is not currently available in Europe and Korea.
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative artificial intelligence AI-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.
Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement
Anthropic is offering two new features from Claude AI: a Team plan for collaborative workspaces for small teams ($30 per user per month), and a free Claude iOS app is available for download.
Apple poaches AI experts from Google, creates secretive European AI lab. At least 36 former Googlers now work on AI for Apple.
Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari browser alongside new operating systems.
Apple and OpenAI are reportedly in talks for iOS 18 integration. The tech companies are in talks about bringing chatbot features to the iPhone.
Does it make sense for AI VCs to back rivals? Some investors seem to think so, taking an approach to startup investing that looks a little like buying an index fund with an array of tech stocks.
Funding 💼💸
CoreWeave, a GPU provider from New Jersey that rents out super clusters and backed by Nvidia raises $1.1B in Series C funding and is now worth $19 billion
Trovo Health Announces $15 Million Seed Funding Round Led by Oak HC/FT. Trovo’s specialty-trained AI software and expert care teams deliver new capabilities for patients, improve outcomes and operate with efficiency
Berlin-based fertility care startup Ovom Care has raised a €4.8 million seed funding round made by Alpha Intelligence Capital, Ananda Impact Ventures, Merantix, and angel investors. The startup utilizes AI technology to enhance the effectiveness of fertility treatments.
CARV raises $10M to build out modular data layer for gaming and AI. Tribe Capital and IOSG Ventures led the funding round, with Consensys, OKX Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, No Limit Holdings, Draper Dragon, Arweave and Netmarble among others.
Danti, an artificial intelligence company building a superpower search engine for Earth data lands $5M from Shield Capital to scale its earch engine for government clients.
Dublin-based anti-piracy startup Ceartas has raised a $4.5M Seed round to detect AI-generated content from Earlybird Venture Capital, Upside VC and a range of angel investors.
Hatch, a NYC-based provider of AI-powered donor engagement solutions for nonprofits, raised $3M in Seed funding led by Differential Ventures with participation from Character, Howard Morgan, and angel investors.
Milan-based martech startup Glaut has announced its raise of $1.4 million in a pre-seed round led by the Italian Founders Fund. Brainstorm Ventures, Alecla7, B Heroes, participated as well. Glaut aims to assist marketing teams in B2C firms in making more informed business decisions by using conversational surveys.
Corelight, a leader in open network detection and response (NDR) has raised $150 million in Series E investment led by Accel to accelerate growth in AI and cloud security
M&A 💰
Nvidia to acquire AI startup Deci for $300 million The chip giant has spent $1 billion purchasing two Israeli startups in one week after announcing a deal to buy Run:ai for $700 million last week (Deci.ai)
Full list of Israeli startup M&As in 2024 Israeli high-tech companies remain a sought-after commodity despite the crisis in the market
Neptune Flood, the nation’s largest private flood insurance company, has acquired Charles River Data in a bid to enhance AI-driven flood insurance solutions.
Interesting Reads 💡🤔
Scale AI’s 2024 AI Readiness Report is out. This report uncovers trends and best practices to optimize and secure generative AI for real impact. Scale have surveyed over 1,800 ML practitioners to understand the state of AI development and adoption across enterprises, model builders, and governments today.
Is prompting the future of coding? Interesting video podcast with Nick Dobos, founder of Grimoire, a coding assistant
Microsoft takes a bold step towards transparency with inaugural responsible AI transparency report.
Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis delves into the history and incredible capabilities of AI in a TED Talk. Hassabis says AI has the potential to unlock the greatest mysteries surrounding our minds, bodies and the universe.
Tech 🤖💻
A mysterious new model called "gpt2 chatbot" has popped up on LMsys, a platform for evaluating large language models. This newcomer is turning heads with performance rivalling the powerful GPT-4 Turbo, and no one knows who created it! Theories are flying: could it be a glimpse of OpenAI's next big thing, GPT-4.5
Whisper.cpp-cli offers a user-friendly way to leverage Whisper's speech recognition capabilities on your computer. (GitHub Repo)
Mistral.rs is a fast LLM inference platform supporting inference on a variety of devices, quantization, and easy-to-use application with an Open-AI API compatible HTTP server and Python bindings. (GitHub Repo)
Mamba: a comprehensive survey of a promising vision model for long sequence modeling
Tools 🧰🛠️
BrainyDocs: Convert PDFs into Explainer Videos using AI
Play.ai is a startup specializing in creating voice interface solutions for businesses
Outerbase - AI-powered database platform for viewing, querying, visualizing, and editing your data.
Outfit.fm - Try on any outfit you want.
Noodle: Review your UGC & Influencer content at scale with AI Streamline. Manual content review, with speed and accuracy. Reduce time, risk and increase quality with AI
Dub AI – a suite of AI enhancements to help you manage your links more efficiently.
Events 🪩🎉
AI Conference (June 2-7) - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA and Virtual.
An extensive event with sessions on generative AI, AIOps, and applied machine learning, including tutorials and a technology exhibition.
Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Automation 2024 (June 3-5) - Frankfurt, Germany.
Explore intelligent automation and AI applications in European business environments.
AI and Big Data Expo North America (June 5-6) - Santa Clara, California, USA.
This event is key for professionals who want to explore innovations and strategies in enterprise technologies, including AI and machine learning.
Autonomous Innovation Summit 2024 (June 5-6) - Online.
Summit focused on autonomous innovation, covering advances in AI and its impact on various industries.
Generative AI Summit 2024 (June 10-11) - San Francisco, California, USA.
A focus on generative AI, with panels and workshops led by leaders in AI technology and applications.
The AI Summit London (June 12-13) - London, UK.
A highlight of London Tech Week with practical use cases of AI by global brands.
IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (June 25-27) - Singapore.
This event brings together AI experts to discuss innovations and advances in the field, with a strong focus on AI research.
AI Engineer World’s Fair (June 25-27) - San Francisco, California, USA and Virtual.
This free event for virtual attendees focuses on AI software and hardware development, with a wide range of sessions and workshops.
AI Jobs 👩💻👨💻
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Intelligence (Pinterest) San Francisco / Remote - $148,049—$304,496 USD
Account Development Representative (AnyScale) - San Francisco, CA - $100,000 Salary + $20,000 Sales Incentive Target
Lead UXR Manager, FAIR (Meta) - Menlo Park, CA - 163,000 $/year to 226,000 $/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Solutions Marketing Manager (CouchBase) - Santa Clara, CA - $140,000-$170,000 USD
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (CloverHealth) Remote / USA